Floating Rubber Ducks In The Ocean

Today the north pacific gyre is also home to what has been called the great pacific ocean garbage patch a massive island of floating debris mostly plastic that the gyre stirs like a giant pot of.

Floating rubber ducks in the ocean.

It all began back in somewhere in the middle of the pacific ocean a consignment of first years bath toys including bright yellow rubber ducks were spilled from the greek owned merchant ship. After a containment of some 29 000 plastic yellow ducks red beavers blue turtles and green frogs were washed into the pacific in 1992 the little toys began appearing on beaches around the world. Marine debris also known as marine litter is human created waste that has deliberately or accidentally been released in a sea or ocean floating oceanic debris tends to accumulate at the center of gyres and on coastlines frequently washing aground when it is known as beach litter or tidewrack. Currents took them and news reports said.

Somewhere in the middle of the pacific ocean nearly 29 000 first years bath toys including bright yellow rubber ducks are spilled from a cargo ship in the pacific ocean. Deliberate disposal of wastes at sea is called ocean dumping. In 1992 a cargo ship container tumbled into the north pacific dumping 28 000 rubber ducks and other bath toys that were headed from china to the u s.